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16 March 2016
Gentiloni in Prague, focus on bilateral economic relations

Rapidly strengthening economic relations between Italy and the Czech Republic will be the main theme of a visit to Prague by Minister Paolo Gentiloni today and tomorrow. The agenda will also include main European and international issues, such as immigration and conflicts in the Mediterranean. The visit takes place at a vital stage in bilateral […]

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11 March 2016
#Farnesina: Art as the communication channel between society and politics

“Politics is the offspring of creation; therefore culture must be thought of starting from art and subsequently reach politics through the appropriate mechanism. This is why it is so important that Italian art be present here, in a place open to the world,” Michelangelo Pistoletto told the Multi-media Editorial Board of the Farnesina and the […]

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10 March 2016
Secretary General Valensise in Skopje

Secretary General Michele Valensise held meetings in Skopje yesterday with the Secretary of State of the Macedonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Elena Kuzmanovska, and the Macedonian Deputy Prime Minister in charge of European Affairs, Fatmir Besimi. Ambassador Valensise emphasised Italy’s full support towards Skopje’s integration on the Euro-Atlantic stage and affirmed that the European Union’s […]

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10 March 2016
Gentiloni in Malta: Libya and migration crisis on the agenda

The migration crisis, fighting terrorism and Libya are the major issues on the agenda of the meetings that Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni will have today at La Valletta, in addition to the bilateral relations between Italy and Malta. Minister Gentiloni is scheduled to meet with his colleague George Vella, the President of the Republic Marie […]

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Press Releases
5 March 2016
Note of the Farnesina on the migration plan

Italy understands Switzerland’s need to follow up on the popular referendum on migration issues called two years ago but believes that this must be done in close contact with the European Commission so as to single out solutions taking into consideration the people’s will on the one hand and the need not to discriminate European […]

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4 March 2016
Erasmus, Italian student wins first European scholarship to Iran

A 21-year-old woman from Cagliari, Valentina Simeone, is the first European student to enter Tehran University with an Erasmus scholarship after she outclassed colleagues from other nine EU universities. The European Union has decided to broaden the horizons of cultural exchange by granting 136 funded scholarships to young people from Iran, Iraq and Yemen for […]

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26 February 2016
Med Group in Cyprus puts focus on regional crises

The Syrian and Libyan crises and their consequences on the phenomena of migration and terrorism will be the focus of the yearly meeting of the Med Group foreign ministers which will be held today in Cyprus with the participation of Minister Paolo Gentiloni and his colleagues from  Spain, Greece, Portugal, Cyprus and Malta, the French […]

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Press Releases
25 February 2016
Minister Gentiloni meets with Heads of Mission of the EU member states

Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Paolo Gentiloni attended an institutional meeting with the Heads of Mission of the EU member states, hosted by the Ambassador of the Netherlands for the current Presidency of the EU Council. The meeting was an opportunity to reiterate Italy’s stance on key issues regarding Europe and the crisis […]

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25 February 2016
Gentiloni holds telephone conversation with the Greek Minister of Foreign Affairs

Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Paolo Gentiloni held a telephone conversation with the Greek Minister of Foreign Affairs Nikos Kotzias.   “Italy,” Minister Gentiloni said, “believes unilateral initiatives on immigration to be dangerous and does not share any position aimed at having one single Country, such as Greece, bear the responsibility of facing […]

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22 February 2016
Foreign Minister Gentiloni in Turkey

Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni will be in Turkey from February 21 to 23 to attend a bilateral meeting with his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Çavuşoğlu and the third meeting of the High Level Partnership Forum on Somalia. Only a few months after the talks in Brussels on the sidelines of the NATO Foreign Ministers Meeting of […]

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Press Releases
18 February 2016
Communique on establishing the sea border between Italy and France

On the issue of establishing the sea border between Italy and France, which has been the subject of parliamentary questions as well as several press reports, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs recalls the points raised in the reply given by Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs Benedetto della Vedova to parliamentary question no. 2-01268 of 12th February.The […]

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12 February 2016
Sarajevo – Italy and Bosnia discuss progress towards EU membership

Italian Ambassador to Bosnia-Herzegovina, Ruggero Corrias, recently met Deputy President of Bosnia’s Chamber of Deputies, Sefik Džaferović. During the meeting, they exchanged views on the country’s path to EU membership, stressing the need for Bosnia-Herzegovina to press ahead in its efforts to align with European standards also after submitting a formal application for EU membership. […]

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